How many individuals have won the Nobel prize twice to date (Nov 2022)?

5

The correct answer is Option (4) - 5

America's Barry Sharpless has been awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work on “click chemistry” in 2022, becoming only the fifth person to win the prize for the second time. He first received the prize in Chemistry in 2001."

Known as the mother of modern physics, Marie Curie was the first woman ever to win Nobel prizes for her work. She first received the award in Physics, along with her husband Pierre Curie in 1903. For the second time, Curie solely received the prize in Chemistry for her work on radioactivity in 1911.

American chemist Linus Pauling is the only person to ever be awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes. He first won the Nobel in 1954 in Chemistry, and for the second time, he received Peace prize in 1962.

US engineer John Bardeen has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, once in 1956 and then in 1972.

UK biochemist Frederick Sanger, also called the father of genomics, was the only person to receive the Nobel Prize in chemistry twice. He first solely won the Nobel in 1958 for his work on the structure of proteins, notably insulin and second Nobel in 1980 alongside Paul Berg and Walter Gilbert of the US.

America's Barry Sharpless has been awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work on “click chemistry” in 2022, becoming only the fifth person to win the prize for the second time. He first received the prize in Chemistry in 2001 for his work on "chirally catalysed oxidation reactions."

Apart from these five scientists, two organisations, the international Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prizes multiple times. The ICHR won the Nobel in 1917, 1944 and 1963, while the UN agency won the peace prize in 1954 and 1981.